You’ve got a price to get your shipment to the UK, now find out when you’re likely to have it delivered. We’ve developed an estimator to give you a fairly accurate delivery estimate.
Delivery Estimate = *
* This estimate is calculated based on a theoretically ideal shipment. It doesn’t take into account delays caused by customs, suppliers, national holidays or any other variable factors that are out of our control and may affect the final delivery date.
Suppliers may quote transit times between China and the UK without taking into consideration other processes at either end of the journey. Please allow extra time for things like customs, delivery to and from ports, loading and unloading. We include both the time your goods spend on the water and the total journey time from door to door in our estimates.
- Southern China – Guangzhou/Shenzhen – 23-25 days on the water. Allow a total of 6 weeks from door to door (from the supplier’s factory to your delivery address).
- Central China – Shanghai/Ningbo – 28-30 days on the water. Allow a total of 7 weeks from door to door.
- Northern China – Qingdao/Tianjin/Xingang – 32-35 days on the water. Allow a total of 8 weeks from door to door.
As all sea freight services use the same vessels on very similar transit times there’s no real way of reducing these times dramatically. The only way to reduce this transit time by more than a few days would be to use air freight… but this would be around four times the price of sea freight!
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